Flight attendants rally at DC, Charlotte, Dallas airports

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Association of Flight Attendants union members at PSA Airlines picket at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, Aug. 18 in long fight for new contract with pay for unpaid work.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Dozens of flight attendants, members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport here, mounted a spirited picket line outside of the American Airlines terminal Aug. 18. “Some days you have to…


Nurses protest after gov’t cancels union contracts at VA hospitals

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

DECATUR, Ga. — Nurses and their supporters rallied outside the Department of Veteran Affairs hospital here Aug. 12 protesting the termination of their union contract and proposed cuts in staffing. “On Aug. 6, the government canceled our union contract,” Florence…


Workers discuss fight for safety after US Steel plant explosion

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

CLAIRTON, Pa. — “It was a gas leak alright,” Larry Evans told the Militant in Elizabeth, near the giant U.S. Steel Coke Works here, where a deadly explosion killed two union steelworkers and injured 10 others Aug. 11. “They preach…


U.S. gov’t escalates attack on Cuba’s int’l medical missions

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Cuban doctors train at health clinic in Brasilia, Brazil, in 2013, part of the Mais Medicos program there. Doctors, nurses from Cuba have treated millions in municipalities across Brazil.

In the latest move by Washington to tighten its brutal economic war against Cuba, the U.S. government revoked visas from officials in Brazil who had helped expand Cuba’s international medical missions there. Since 1963 Cuba’s revolutionary government has organized doctors…


Protests continue to grow in Iran following the 12-day war

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Oil workers protesting in Gachsaran, Iran Aug. 17, hold photo of Saber Asayesh, who died because of company disdain for workers’ lives, denial of heath care to contract workers.

The reactionary regime in Iran arrested some 21,000 people during and after the 12-day war with Israel in June, setting up more than 1,000 roadblocks across the country in a crackdown on “crime” and political dissidents, a police department spokesperson…


Azerbaijan, Armenia deal shows waning reach of Moscow

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

President Donald Trump met with government leaders from Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House Aug. 8 and they signed a joint declaration aimed at ending nearly four decades of conflict and wars between the two former Soviet republics. The…


Attacks, discrimination against Jews on rise in Canada

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

MONTREAL — Since Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom in Israel, attacks on Jews in Canada have grown. B’nai Brith Canada reports 6,219 incidents of Jew-hatred across the country in 2024, more than double the number in 2022. The attacks…



Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025
Some 10,000 flight attendants in the Canadian Union of Public Employees struck Air Canada Aug. 16, defying a government back-to-work order for three days. Above, picket line in Toronto.

MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to work Aug. 19 when their union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, announced a deal had…


The road to end imperialist war, Jew-hatred

Vol. 89/No. 31 - September 1, 2025

The wars that followed Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom against Jews in Israel and Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine the year before are front lines in the class struggle. Workers have big stakes in backing Israel’s war to prevent Tehran-backed Hamas…